Welcome to my book blog created 2012 of books I read and review. I exhausted space on my other blog, Pat's Posts. Better to separate my readings from my writings. Eventually I will display my entire library here. I am in the process of moving some reviews from the other blog here as well. The design of this blog has been a work in progress, slowly, bear with me...

MY OTHER BLOG

If you got here because I commented and you were directed to this blog, it is because Blogger will not show both blogs. So you can get to my Pat's Posts, by clicking this link..my miscellany, the first blog while this is just about books.

Saturday, June 7, 2014

Ratings and little commentary catch up

I have managed to read a few books all good but not keep up with posting to this blog. As place holders because I am donating all three to the book sales, here are two books I read in April & May:

Published as a trade paperback by Bantam Books in 2013, 434 pages, a historical novel biography; told from the research on Anne Morrow Lindbergh as though from her eyes and voice, it reveals her life and her marriage to Charles. Excellent reading as I have read much about and by the Lindbergh's. This is the first book by author Melanie Benjamin that I have read. I would read more. Page 50, "I turned even more hungrily than usual to my diary. I had always been like this; only able to recognize my world by reassembling it on the page." Page 52, " But what's it all about?...What's it all for? We get married, ..That's what it's all for. We marry equally bright promising young men from Princeton or Cornwall or Harvard or Yale. We collect silver and china. .....Meanwhile we play tennis and golf and try to keep our figures and our sanity." 5 *****

Published 2009, St Martin's Press, hardback, 309 pages of a delightful mystery with the antics of Stephanie Plum, bounty hunter, investigator and the great characters of this genre, including Diesel, Detective Morelli, her grandma, her mother, her sidekick Lula, and others. It's a fast read this one about the New Jersey Devil, some magic, space shifters. Picked it up at a sale and it is a very easy read. Comical in parts to laugh out loud funny as well as not guessing where the villain will turn up. Funniest part when one of her catches goes off to get married and leaves her monkey on Stephanie's door step to care for while she is on her honeymoon. Another amusing mystery by best selling author Janet Evanovich. 5 *****

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Open Book

Open Book

Your books

I found this scrap clipping clearing out paperwork, there is no author, I wished I'd written it but I didn't and I don't know who did: "Your books are your autobiography; they map your history, reflect your tastes, hold emotional moments between covers."

My rating system 5 *****

I am using a 5 star rating with 5 being excellent, the best read and 1 marginal....some books may not merit 1 star. Life is too short to waste on uninteresting books...or maybe my reading time is too short, or maybe I'm just too short. But there it is 1 low to 5 high.

I read books

“I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has

Book Drunkard Quote LM Reynolds

When you finish a book

When you finish a book

You are the books you read

You are the books you read

My other blog

This is the link to my other blog, where there are reviews of books I have read prior to 2012 as well as other writings http://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/

About Me

This is to record books I have read, sometimes my comments may be useful to others. However I set this blog up for tracking my own reads, and a way to not repurchase something I have already read. That purpose does not always work. I do not belong to any book clubs because I prefer to choose my own books to read and the book clubs I tried did not work out for me. I wanted discussion, about writing, authors, the concepts, etc instead all I heard was, "I liked it" or "I didn't like it" no depth of conversation, so I gave up. I have been a life long reader. I will say in retirement, I do not spend enough time just reading, as I imagined I would. My days are busy and so it is unusual for me to carve out time in the day to read, mostly I read for about half an hour prior to bed. Life is different than I thought it would be. .